James Webb
invited by Sean O’Toole

photo: Blaise Adilon

«The Black Passage », 2006
Installation lumière, son et espace
Courtesy James Webb
Avec le soutien de Sikkens-Vachon.

JAMES WEBB
born in Kimberley, South Africa lives and works in Cape Town
In James Webb’s work landscape – as animate or inanimate space – is unpredictable. Never pinned down, never reduced to a mere biological or geological phenomenon, it is presented as mythical, magical space. For the Biennial Webb has created a very intense symbolic landscape: a long, narrow, dark corridor in which a high-volume sound suggests a lift descending into Johannesburg’s deepest goldmine.

SEAN O’TOOLE
born 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa lives and works in Johannesburg
Journalist and essayist Sean O’Toole is the “Sunday Times” photography specialist. He also contributes to “Adbusters”, “Art in America”, “Blueprint”, “BBC Focus on Africa”, “Dazed & Confused”, “Eye” and “I-D”.